Emily Godfrey
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Black and white photograph showing an older Nigerian woman in Aro Chuku, in modern Akwa-Ibom state in southeast Nigeria. The woman sits on a wooden chair and wears a patterned dress, and villagers can be seen in the background. The lady sits next to a small girl of around four years of age, wearing a patterned smock dress and a bracelet on one wrist. The caption to this image reads: Iwe-Iwe Mbapo of Aro Chuku Dec 1943, with grandchild. In her youth used to dress slaves for sale. Her husband one of the largest slave owners & a Long Juju priest. She also danced round dead bodies at sacrificial ceremonies. A great power in church & district since conversion." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a medical facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abia state in southeast Nigeria.
Black And White Photographs
Centre for the Study of World ChristianityContact the repository for details.The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdomdivinity-CSWC@ed.ac.ukhttp://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
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